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BICIS vs. BUSES * UK: ... Houldn't it?

* England - As easy as riding a dike well it should be ...

(Photo: Six lanes down to five, but a bus lane has gone missing) London,EN,UK -As easy as riding a bike -August 8, 2014:-- A hot topic at the moment is potential conflict between London’s bus network, and an expanding cycle network – one suitable for all potential users... It’s becoming a prominent issue, I suspect, because in the places where cycle provision is being installed, or proposed, space is – in some instances – being taken from the bus network.The Superhighway 2 extension alongStratford High Streethas taken a lane away, in each direction, from a six lane road. However, that road did, in the recent past, have (intermittent) bus lanes in each direction – bus lanes that aren’t there now...Likewise the new proposals for Superhighway 5show that the cycle tracks on Vauxhall Bridgewill come at the expense of one of the two bus lanes, rather than at the expense of a general traffic lane...